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H. SUHULZ E-BERGH' GEARING DEVICE.

Patented Sept. 23, 1884.

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H. 'SOHULZE-BERGE.

GEARING DEVICE.

Patent ed Sept. 25, 1884.

No.'s05,714.

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H. SCHULZE-BBRGE.

GEARING DEVICE.

No. 305,714; Patented Sept. 23, 1884.

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' HERMANN SOHULZE-BERGE, on ROCHESTER, rnnnsrnvnma;

GEARING DEVICE.

CIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. $05,714:, dated September 23, 188%.

Application filed January 11, isel. (no inodel.)

To (ZZZ whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, HERMANNSOHULZE- Bnnon, of Rochester, in the county of Beaver. and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Gearing Devices; and I.do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exactdescription .thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which-L a v i n Figure 1 is a section through their axes of a pairrof sphericalgear-wheels with shafts and cages. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section through dotted linesaw of Fig. 1. Fig. 3.is a side view of a pair of spherical gear-wheels with connecting devices. Fi .4 shows a modified form of connecting devices. Fig. 5 shows a pair of hemispherical wheels and connect: ing devices. Figs. 7 and 8 represent the connection Ofeages with hemispherical gearwheels. Fig. 9 shows the devices for connectin g s ph cri cal gear-wheels when more than two. wheels are to be used. Fig. 10 is a cross-section of the connecting links and arm through the dotted line x to, Fig. 9. Fig. 11 shows the position of thedevices of Fig. 9 when vthe shafts aremoved out of parallelism. Fig. 12.

shows a modified form of connection of the devices shown in Fig. 9. Figgl3 is a crosssection through the dottedlines x a", Fig. 12.

Figs. 14. and loillustrate the connection of pair of spherical gear-wheels permitting of a;

relative longitudinal motion. Fig. .16. is., a cross-section, and Fig. 17 a sideview, of three sphcri cal wheels connected by their polar axes. Fig. 18 is a cross-section through the dotted line :0 not Fig. 17. 19 is a representation of the devices shown in Figs. 16 and 17 when the axes of the wheels are moved out of a right line. Fig. 20 illustrates a mode vof connecting spherical gear -.wheels by their. polar ares, admitting of adjustment of their axes out of parallelism with each other. Fig. 21 shows a modified device for connecting two spherical gear-wheels. Fig. 22 is a cross-sec tion through the dotted line w wof Fig. 21.

Fig. 23 is an illustration of the practical application of hemispherical gear-wheels. Fig.

24: is a longitudinal section through the dotted line was m,Fig.2". Fig. 25 is a section through the dotted line 00 m of Fig. 26. Fig. 2Gis a,

side view a of the hemispherical gear-wheels in I Fig. 23 when turned pole topole. Fig. 27

shows a modified arrangement of the shafts, of the spherical gear-wheels in Fig- 28. Fig. 28 is a-crossrsection 7 through the dotted line m m ofFig.23.

, In various kinds. of machinery itis desirable. to be able to changethe relative angle of two or moreshafts which communicate rotary motion one to another, their motionbeingderived from a common source or prime motor. In order to dothis, either while the machinery is in operation or before it is set in 1notion, it, is usual to employdevices known as universal joints. Such devices, however, permit of a comparatively limited change of angle, and can only be applied at opposite extremities of the connected shafts.

Theobject of my invention is to provide gearing device by which shafts maybe geared angle of. inclination than can be attained by means of a universal joint.

ganized machine, I have shown in. Fig. 23 of .7 together at the same or at opposite ends, and, which will permit of a much larger range ofv the drawings a machine for printing on glasslware, in which the shafts of the printing-roller and of the lathe which holds the glass article are geared together with my spherical gearwheels, whereby a perfect synchronism of rotary motionis preserved, while the printing roller shaft is capable of motion toward or from the shaft of the lathe while they are both in operation aud whereby, also, these shafts may beset at almost any desired relative angle, so as to accommodate the machine to the printing onarticles of various shapes and sizes. This illustration serves to show the capabilities. of my improvcment, which may also be applied to machinery of all kinds, either large or small, in whiclrit is desirablethat the relativeposition of geared shafting should be susceptible of variation.

In order, therefore, that others may be able to use my improvement, I will proceed to de scribe its construction and operation.

My invention relates to a new description of gear-wheels having substantially a spherical shape, or that of a section of a sphere. My improved gear-whcelin its perfect, as distinguished from its truncated, form consists of a globe havingcogs orteeth extending from teeth therefore gradually widening from the 'tance apart, and, further, that if their axes spherical gear-wheels may be slightly truncated at both poles'in a plane parallel to that of the equatorial diameter of the sphere.

practice the shafts of these gear-wheels will one pole of the globe to the other, the cogs or 1 poles toward the middle or equatorial circum ference of the globe. I use the term globe in this connection because the surface of the gear-wheel at the external surface of the teeth is a slightly oblate spheroid, while its surface at the base of the teeth is a slightly prolate spheroid, while the pitch-line of the teeth is always in the true spherical surface which would be described by the rotation of the axis of a circle the diameter of which is equal to a line drawn from the pitch-line of one tooth through the centerof the globe to the pitchline of the tooth diametrically opposite to it. With this explanation I shall hereafter use the terms spherical and hemispherical as applied to my gear-wheels, notwithstanding that it is not mathematically correct. It is obvious that when two such spherical toothed gear-wheels are brought into gearing contact with their equatorial diameters in the same" plane they may be rotated freely, just as ordi nary cog-wheels, provided, of course, that the teeth are of the same width, pitch, and disareinclined to each other they will still remain in gear and may be so rotated; and, fur-' ther, that this inclination of their axes may be continued with the'same result until or nearly until their polar axes are brought into the same right line, when the cogs vanish and the gearing-connection would cease. Hence there is this limit only to the degree of inclination of the axes of a pair of these gear-wheels, which may be made without throwing the wheels out of gear, that if the inclination from a right line be so slight that the cog-teeth will not practically remain in gear the mutual action will cease. Hence, in practice, these pass through or be in the line of the polar axis of the sphere, and in that position, for the reason just stated, they interfere less with the scope of action of these wheels than if they could occupy any other position.

In Fig. 1, Sheet 1, A A represent a pair of spherical cog-wheels by a section in line of their polar axes. The dotted line on either side of each wheel is the pitch-line of the teeth, being arcs ofa true circle, and a representing the cog-teeth of the wheels. Each of these spherical wheels has a central bore in its polar axial line through which the shaft B of each wheel passes. These wheels may be keyed to their shafts; but frequently they will be arranged so as to slide on the shaft and fastened in place by a set-screw, 12, (shown in Fig. 6,) the wheel being prevented from rotation on its shaft by a feather. The spherical wheels have at one end (by which I mean in this specification one of the poles of the sphere) a collar, 0, extending beyond the circumference of the wheel. Usually there is such a collar,

sea-714 0, also at the other end of the wheel. To these collars 0c is attached a frame'or cage, 0, which is a hemisphere forming a cap or cover to one-half of each wheel, each cage-O having a sleeve, d, at each end, which encircles the collar 0 of the wheels, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3. These cages G and Care connected by two links, D, one on each side of a pair of wheels, A A, and which are pivoted to the cages at the points 1 and 2, Figs. 2 and 3. These two links D D hold the cages in place and prevent their changing their position when the wheels revolve. The pivotal points 1 and 2 of the cages are on diametrically-opposite points of the spherical wheels and in the planefofth eir equatorial diameters, or in the arrangement shown in Figs. 17 and 19, and of their poles, so that the distance between the pivotal points 1 and 2 of the links is exactly that of the diameser of the spherical wheels measured from the pitch-lines of the teeth.

These links,therefore,do not interfere with the free rotation of the wheels when in gear, but serve to hold them together in gear with each other. They would not, however, prevent the wheels from sliding on each other in the direction of their polar axes, and if permitted to do so, unless their axes remained parallel, as in Fig. 15, Sheet 8, the wheels would become clogged,because the teeth diminishin width as they approach the ends or polar axes of the wheels. It is necessary,therefore, to provide means for preventing such sliding action, which I effect by means of the rods E E, which are of equal length, and are pivoted at one extremity to the collars d d of the cages O O, and at the other end either to each other, or, which is the same thing in effect, to a sleeve, f, on an arm, F, which arm is rigidly attached to or forms a rectangular extension from the center of the links D, (being bifurcated, so as to connect with the link on each side of the cages,) as seen in Figs. 3 and 10.

The pivotal points of the rods E E on the collars d are marked 4 and 5, and the pivotal point or pointson the collar f are marked 3, the several pivotal points forming the, angles of a pentagon, 1, 2, 5, 3, and 4. Now, it is evident that ifthe shafts B B, Fig. 3, be drawn asunder, so as to be out of parallelism with each other, as shown in Fig. 6, the wheels A A will turn on each other without necessarily rotating on their axes, and that the point of gearing con tact on both wheels will be in the same hemisphere and equally distant from the poles of the two wheels. By such motion of the shafts B B the points 1 and 2 will remain at the same distance apart, those points being fixed by the link D, while the pointst and 5 will be farther separated, and the point 3 will approach nearer to the link D and to the points 1 and 2. Thus the spheres A Awill always preserve the same relative position of latitude, no matter what maybe the inclination of their axes to eachother. A spiral spring, 9, may be placed on the. arm F, bearing against the sliding collar 1, so as to push it outward, and

thus give the shafts B B a tendency to return to their normal condition of mutual parallelism. Where this is not desired, the spring 9 will be dispensed with.

In place of the spring 9, and as an equivalent device performing the same function with the added one of adjustability of pressure, a lever, h, with a movable weight, W, may be used, as shown in Fig. 5, where the lever h is shown pivoted to thelink D at one end, and a sleeve, t, which may be set atany point on the lever h, presses against a projection on the sleevcf, tending to push it outward'and draw the shafts back to a parallel position.

When it is desired that the angle of inclination of the shafts B B of the spherical gearwheels A A shall be fixed and yet adjustable, the device shown in Fig. 21, Sheet 4, may be employed. This differs from that shown in Fig. 3 in substituting for the spiral spring 9 a screw, j, which is attached to the link I) by a swivel, and instead of the sliding collar f is a nut, f, which engages the screw j, so that by turning the screwj'the angle of the shafts B B may be varied at pleasure.

In Figs. 14 and 15 is shown a mode of con necting the gear-wheels, which may be useful in some cases, as it preserves the parallelism of the shafts B B of the gear-wheels, but allows them to move longitudinally in relation to each other. In this case the links D are used to connect the cages C G of the wheels A A; but the sleeves d d of the cages are connected by a rod, k, whiehis parallel to the link and of equal length between its pivotal points, so that the four pivots are in the four angles of a parallelogram, permitting of the parallel motion of the shafts B B, as shown in Fig. 15, while the wheels remain in gear.

Another connection of the spherical wheels is shown in Fig. 4, Sheet 1, iuwhich the link Dis employed to connect the cages, and a rod, 1, sliding in a socket, m, placed parallel to link D, is used. In this case, as before, the distance between the pivotal points 1 and 2 on the link is constant; but the distance between the pivotal points 3 and 4 on the collars of the cages O 0 may be increased, as the shafts B B are set at a greater inclination to each other. By this arrangement the wheels are prevented from sliding lengthwise on each other, excepting when the length of the rod and socket l and m becomes equal to that of the link D between their respectix e pivotal points.

For many purposes hemispherical wheels will answer fully as well as spheres; but they should in practice be rather more than hemispheres, so as to afford a good gearing-coir nection when their shafts B B are parallel.

Figs. 5, 6, 7, and S of Sheet 1 and Figs. 9, 11, and 12 of Sheet 2 illustrate the use of hemispherical gear-wheels. In the use of this form of wheel the cages should be situate below the wheel, as in Fig. 6, and not on the side, as in Fig.3, as this construction permits three or more wheels to be geared together.

Fig. 9 shows how the sleeves cl of the cages O are attached to the collars a, which extend from the lower or flat side of the hemispherical wheel. In other respects the mode of connection by means of the pentagonal arrangement of the pivotal points and the use of the link D, rods E E, and arm F may be the same.

Fig. 12, Sheet 2, shows a modified form of connection in which the link I) is used; but the arm F is dispensed with, and in place of it the rods E cross each other, and are connected at oneend to the cage of one wheel and at the other end to a slide, a, which slides in an extension of the collar (1 on the shaft of the other wheel.

Figs. it to 11 illustrate the connection of three hemispherical gear-wheels, H H H, the links D, with their arms F and sliding collar, and the rods E E, connecting the collar on the cage of each pair of shafts B B with the sliding collar on the arm F placed between them. When the lower arm attached to one of. the links D is moved to the position shown in'Fig. 11, the shafts B B B radiate from a common center, like the spokes of a wheel, the contained angle between the adjoining shafts being the same, and being changed exactly to the same degree by every movement of the lever I.

Fig. 9 shows the same set of shafts B B B placed parallel to each other.

Fig. 10, which is a cross-section on the line w w of Fig. 9, shows how the two links D D on opposite sides of each adjacent pair of wheels are connected together by the bifurcation of the arm F.

Figs. 23 to 28 on Sheets illustrate the application of my hemispherical gear-wheels to the driving of machinery. The machine represented is for printing on glassware. J is the spindle of a lathe carrying a chuck, K, in which the lamp-shade L is placed. M is the printing-roller, which is designed to be revolved at the same speed as the chuck K of the lathe. The horizontal shaft'N, driven by gearing from the hand-wheel 0, causes the IIO revolution of the vertical shaft P, to which the printing-roller shaft Q is attached byaknucklejoint at S. The angle of inclination of the shaft Q, which carries the printing-roller M, fastened to the vertical shaft 1, which drives the shaft Q, is about sixty degrees. The two hemispherical gear-wheels H H have their bearings pivoted in a quadrilateral frame, 12, at the points 6, 7, S, and 9. (See Fig. 25.) The shafts P and Q pass through the sliding bearin gs of the wheels H H, as shown. in Fig. 23, and thebcaring of one of the wheels, H, extends up the shaft 1? as a sleeve, and is supported by a hanging bracket, R. The shaftQ of the printing-roller M has a swivel on it at q, so as to permit it to turn in a different direction from the shaft 1. It is evident that, notwithstanding the angle of inclination between the shafts P and Q, is so small, the hemispherical gearwheel H, being rotated by the shaft 1, will cause the hemispherical gearwheel H, and with-it the printing roller shaft in Fig. 23 and the line SS.

' H H standing pole to pole are out of gear.

various purposes.

Q, also to rotate, thus performing the function I of a universal joint. Now, if it should be desired to increase the angle of inclination of the l shaft Q with the shaft 1? to one hundred and twenty degrees, (as indicated by the dotted lines S S, Fig. 23,) the hanging bracket R being lowered and the .free end of the frame 1) also lowered, the wheels H II will turn in their bearings and approach the angle of the shafts P and Q, still, however, remaining in gear and rotating the shaft Q in any position in which it may be placed between that shown Fig. 27 shows the arrangement of the driving-shaft P and theworking-shaft Q, by which the shaft Q may be extended beyond the point of connection of the two shafts by means of a swivel, r, on the shaft 1?, and a sleeve, 8, on the shaftQ, to which the driving-shaft P is pivoted.

Fig. 26 shows the position of the gear-wheels- H H when the shafts P Q are extended in a right line, and consequently the gear-wheels Spherical cog-wheels truncated at both sides of the equatorial diameter may be used for In Figs. 16 to 19, Sheet 3, such wheels T Tare shown. In this case the shafts are kept in a parallel position to each other, while they are susceptible of change of position on a horizontal direction. In this case the T-shaped link and arm D F and rods E E are used to connect the shafts of the wheels, but the cages O are dispensed with, and in place of the cages abifurcated strap, U, serves to connect the rods E E with the sleeve f on the rods F at one end, and with the shafts of the wheels, as shown in Fig. 18. This arrangement may be used when the two outside wheels, T and T, are working-shafts, or one a working-shaft and the other a driving-shaft having bearings which can slide toward each other in a right line. (Represented by the dotted line am; in Fig. 19.) In this case the wheel T is an idler. Now, by moving the lever I the axes of the wheels T and T may be moved toward each other untilthe peripheries of these wheels nearly touch, as in Fig. 19, or may be sepa rated on the line .1: until the axes of the wheels T T T are in a right line, as in Fig. 17.

In Fig. 20is shown an arrangement by which I with the use of a pair of truncated spherical I wheels, T T, their axes may be more or less inclined to each other without disturbing the gear of the wheels. This is effectedby means of a stationary collar, it, on each of the shafts B B, within which the axles revolve, and a sliding collar or sleeve, u a, on each shaft between the collar t or t and the wheel T or T. Between the shafts B B, and parallel to them when they are parallel to each other, is a screw, w, on which is a flange,o, and two screwnuts, a; 00, work on the screw wone above and the other below the flange 1;. Around each of the nuts or a: is a ring, y 3/, within which the nuts turn freely on the screw 10. A link, 2, pivoted to the collar t, is pivoted at its other end to the ring 3 on the upper nut, 00, and a similar link, .2, also pivoted to the collar 15, is pivoted at its other end. to the flange v on the screw to. Another link, z, is pivoted at one end to the flange o and at the other end to the sleeve u, and a fourth link, 2, is pivoted at one endto the sleeve 14 and to the ring g on the lower nut, x. A similar arraugement of links 2 connects the collars t t and the sleeve u and a on the shafts B and B, respectively, with the flange 1) and the rings y 11/ on the nuts was of the screw it. Now, by I adjusting the nuts so that the upper nut, 00, shall be screwed down toward the flange-o, and the lower nut, 00, screwed down so as to be farther away from the flange v, the shafts B and B may be made to assume'an inclined position relatively to each other, as shown in Fig. 20. v

I do not herein claim the mechanism for printing on glassware, herein described and illustrated, for the reason that the same forms the subject-matter of two other pending applicatio11sviz., Serial Nos. 117,133 and 117 ,134, filed January 11, 1884. p

' What I claim as my invention is- 1. Globular gear-wheels having cog-teeth extending from one pole to the other, the pitchline of the teeth of which is in the surface of a sphere of the diameter of the polar axis of the globe, in combination with a shaft extending through or in line of its polar axis,

2. The combination of two or more spherical cog-wheels, or sections thereof, and their shafts, a cage or frame to each wheel, connected but not revolving therewith, a pair of links pivotally connected with each pair of cages, each pair of links having an arm extending at right angles therefrom, and rods pivotally connected with said cages and with a sleeve on said arm, substantially asa'nd for the purpose described.

3. A pair of spherical cog-wheels, or sections thereof, and their shafts, with devices, substantially such as hereinbefore described, pivotally connected at five points, two of which pivotal points are in the line .either of the polar or of the equatorial axes of said wheels, a third point equidistant from and at right an gles to an imaginary line connecting the first and second points, and the third and fourth pivotal points situate between the said imaginary line and the third point and equidistant from the first and second points and also from the third point, substantially as described.

4:. The combination of two or more spherical cog-wheels, or sections thereof, and their shafts, with the cages c c, bifurcated arm F, links D D, sleeve f, rods E E, and weighted lever h, for connecting two adjoining wheels, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

5. Two or more spherical cog-wheels,in combination with a pair of links, D, connecting the polar axis of two adjoining wheels, and an arm, F, rigidly connected with each pair of links, and having a sleeve, f, the bifurcated straps U and rods E, each of said rods being pivoted at one end to a sleeve, f, and at the other to one of the straps U, substantially as described.

6. The combination of two or more spherical cog-wheels, or sections thereof, each having a shaft or axle, with a cage, c, to each wheel, and a pair of links, D D, connecting the cages of each pair of Wheels on the line of the equatorial diameter thereof, substantially as described.

7. The combination of a pair of spherical cog-wheels, each having a shaft, B,with cages O, linksD, and connecting-rod K, constructed and arranged as described with reference to Fig. 14.

8. The combination of two or more spherical cog-whee1s, or sections thereof, each having a shaft or axle, a pair of links, -D, connected by arm F, screw-nut k on said arm, and rods E E, connecting each pair of cages with the sleeve, and screw 7 on the arm F, and engaging said nut, substantially as described with reference to Fig. 21.

9. The combination of devices consisting of a pair of spherical cog-wheels, or sections thereof, each having a shaft, with the rings a '0, sliding collars a u, and links If 1 con structed and arranged substantially as de scribed with reference to Fig. 20.

10. A device for changing the inclination between two revolving axles While preserving their gearing connection, consisting of the combination, with a pair of axles having spherical gear-wheels, of a pair of cages, each pivotal points of the links on each cage, sub

stantially as and for the purposes described.

11. A device for changing the degree of in clination between two revolnble axles while preserving their gearing-connection, consisting of the combination, with a pair of axles having spheroidal gear-wheels, of a pair of cages, each forming a bearing for one of said gear-wheels, a pair of links pivoted to the cages on lines corresponding with the equatorial axes of the spheroidal gear-wheels, an arm rigidly attached to the links and extending at right angles thereto, a sleeve on-said arm, and a pair of rods of equal length, both pivoted to the sleeve, and one pivoted to one cage and the other to the other cage at points equidistant from the equatorial axes of their gear-wheels, substantially as and for the purposes described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this th day of December, A. D. 1883.

HERMAN N SOHULZEBERGE. Witnessesr W. BAKEWELL, W. B. OoRwIN. 

